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This chapter is twice as long as the previous one, so enjoy! First up: Ruby's first time playing Slender. Dun-dun duhhh!


Disclaimer: I own nothing. Not Slender, and not RWBY. They belong to other people.


"HELLLLLLLLOOOOO TEAM RWBY!" Ruby announced her return as she opened the door to their dorm room, startling the other three occupants. Or at least had attempted to. Yang had lived long enough with Ruby to not react to anything she did. All she did was to turn to see her enter and give her a wave. Blake was curled up on her bed with a book in her face. As Ruby entered she merely brought the book lower so her yellow eyes barely cleared the top of her book before bringing it back up again, her bow twitching slightly to the noise due to her Faunus cat ears underneath. Weiss was the only one to react in any noticeable manner by jumping slightly in her chair at the computer as the door slammed open, then turning around with a mild irate look on her face, which in some cases would be a normal look for her.

"Why hello sis, long time no see," Yang said with a grin. "Where did you disappear off to in such a hurry?"

"I went to Vale and bought some new games for us to play!" Ruby said excitedly, holding up the bag as evidence.

"More games?" Weiss asked disbelievingly. "Don't we already have enough?"

"Can never have too much of a good thing," Ruby replied back.

"Except that one time when dad made those chocolate brownies and you-"

"Key word: one time." Ruby cut Yang off. That was not her finest moment. She refocused on Weiss, "Besides, you hardly play any of the games we have!"

"Because they're a colossal waste of time and turn your brain to mush if you play them too long," Weiss retorted.

"So, anywho, what'd ya get?" Yang asked, cutting off the heiress.

"Let's see," Ruby dug in the bag and brought out three games, "I got the newest Ringworld and Spirit Caliber games, and also the newest Super Crash Bros. And get this, we could have JNPR come over and play it since it supports 8 players!" Ruby omitted the fourth game she got. That's my game to play, the rest are for the team.

"Well, what are we waiting for? Let's invite them over!" Yang said.

"Not so fast Yang," Weiss said, "do we even have enough controllers for everybody?" Surprisingly they had found Weiss was actually pretty good at video games with straightforward rules when she was basically forced to play them by the team. Shoot anyone that isn't on your team, watch out for your health, and completely crush the opposition. Those kinds of rules. Board games are a lost cause for her though.

"I'm pretty sure Jaune and Nora have some," Blake said from her bed, her book now forgotten.

"Considering how many she breaks, that might just be Jaune's then," Yang commented.

"Alright! Let's go ask!" Ruby put the bag and the games on Weiss' bed then marched over to Team JNPR's room and knocked.

The door opened and Ren was there. "Oh, hello Ruby," he said in his calm voice, "did you need something?"

"Yea, I'm inviting your team over to play Super Crash Bros.! Also we need controllers," she smiled sheepishly.

Ren smirked, "I'll ask Jaune." He went over to the blond haired team leader and spoke in a low voice to him that Ruby couldn't hear.

"Well of course! Let's go!" Jaune stood up and got the attention of Nora and Pyrrha. "Nora, grab the extra controllers; we're playing Super Crash Bros. with RWBY!"

"You got it!" Nora rushed over and went to a box in the corner of their dorm and fished out the controllers then ran over to the door. A few minutes later, the two teams were crammed inside one room in front of the Holo-Screen beating the crap out of each other using their favorite characters and having a good time.


More or less.

"Crash Ball! Suck it!"

"Oh Goddamnit Weiss, not again!" Yang shouted at the white haired girl as a giant beam of energy sliced through R_BY and JNPR's characters, blasting half of them off the stage from the attack. "First the hammer, then a Crash Ball, then that mega laser cannon, then another Crash Ball? C'mon!"

At that the time ran out and Weiss won the round with 9 K.O.'s total. "You were the one that wanted items on high," Blake reminded her fiery partner, somehow coming in third with her favorite character Solid Cobra.

Yang groaned, "Don't remind me." She had no luck this round, coming in dead last out of the two teams playing with Major Eagle. She's usually better than that with him, as they both had fiery punches.

JNPR chuckled to themselves, all of them doing relatively well. Jaune stood up and stretched. "Well, I think it's time that we started wrapping up this day," he said.

"Already?" Ruby asked/whined.

"Well it is a little after ten, and tomorrow is the last day before the second semester begins. We need to be well rested for that," he explained

"Pffff, who needs rest," Yang dismissed him with a wave. She also got up and stretched, her sizable… assets definitely prominent on her chest. "Whelp, I'm hungry so I'm gonna' hit the kitchens, see if there's anything left. Anyone want to join me?"

"Ooh ooh me me!" Nora shouted, jumping up and down.

"I'll go with her." Ren said in his slightly more than a monotone.

"Sure, why not?" Weiss shrugged.

They looked at Jaune, Pyrrha, Ruby and Blake. "Nah, I'm fine," Jaune said, "besides I need to put the controllers back."

"I'll help you Jaune." Pyrrha said.

"Blake?" Yang asked.

"I'll stay here." Blake said.

"I'm fine too, but if you can get me a cookie or three that'll be nice." Ruby said.

"I'll see what they have." Yang smirked, having no intention of giving Ruby any sort of sugar this late in the night.

"Yea! Let's go Team WYNR!" (Pronounced 'winner') Nora cheered.

Jaune chuckled, "That's actually pretty good Nora."

"Thanks!"

"Well, let's go before there's nothing left." The four of them exited the room, not really worrying about the noise level since it was a Saturday in-between semesters and the curfew rules were a bit lax as an unofficial Beacon tradition that the teachers followed. Well, all except Goodwitch, but she was usually holed up in her office grading papers or whatever so it was usually fine.

Jaune and Pyrrha spent a minute more in RWBY's dorm before going back to theirs with their four controllers. So Ruby sat on top of her bed suspended by ropes while Blake took her rest on her own bed, once again with a book.

Hmmm, what to do now. Yang's probably not going to come back with any cookies and Blake's ensconced in her book, yea I can use fancy words, go me! Anyway, there's no games left I can pl- no, wait! I have that one game that I bought. What was it? Slimmer? Ruby slid off her bed and went into the bag, which was still on Weiss' bed and pulled out the game. Slender, that was it.

She flipped it over to the back and looked at the system requirements. Okay, the computer we have will work with this. She opened the case and saw that the disk was in there. Satisfied, she booted up the computer.

"What are you doing?" Blake asked curiously.

"I'm going to install this game I bought. It's only single player from what I gathered." Ruby answered.

Blake regarded her for a moment then said, "Just use your headphones while your playing."

Ruby smirked, "Okay." She popped the disk in and started the instillation process. Soon enough the game was ready to play.


Ruby clicked on the game symbol, which popped up with the graphics option. It had already defaulted to the actual screen resolution and Ruby kept the graphics a healthy 'simple', just enough so that the game would look good but still run smoothly. Then she clicked the Input option.

Ah, the ol' 'WASD' movement option, she noted. I'm fine with that. I wonder if there ever was a team with that name? (Somewhere Ozpin and four other people sneezed) Jog/Sprint, shift. Zoom? So I can see stuff further away? Flashlight? I need one? She checked the list again. Nothing else? No wonder this game was only 8 Lien; you can barely do anything in it. Okay, I guess I'm ready. Oops! Almost forgot. Earphones. Ruby quickly grabbed and plugged them in, then put them on over her ears.

And then she hit play.

The screen went black and Ruby waited for a moment. Then some creepy music started playing that sent a shiver or three up Ruby's spine. Oh no. Oh no no no no no no no no. Don't tell me this is a scary game. I hate scary games. I can't play them. Why? Why?

The main menu came up with the title Slender- The Eight Pages, and had different options: Start Game, Options, Extras, Credits, and the ever-blessed Quit button. Ugh, do I want to do this? Not really, but I paid for it. I guess I should at least play it once. Reluctantly, Ruby found the mouse cursor over the 'Start Game'. Sighing one last time, she clicked it.

The screen went black and thankfully the music stopped as well. Then she heard crickets chirping, and the sound of something crunching which after a moment she realized was footsteps on gravel. Words appeared in white. 'Parsec Productions'… ooookay? Ruby thought. Then the next part appeared: Presents. Oh I get it now, it's the introduction.

The footsteps stopped and the black screen whipped left to right to reveal the name 'Slender', with 'The Eight Pages' underneath. The next sound was someone climbing over a chain link fence, then a person dropping down and hitting the gravel.

Click.

The flashlight turned on and the words 'Collect all 8 pages' appeared. Oh, so I just need to collect pages then? Sounds… simple enough. She looked around, not really able so see much with the flashlight on. I'll probably be able to see more without the flashlight, Ruby thought jokingly, and then turned it off to see what it looked like.

She promptly turned it back on. Yea I'll just keep the flashlight on thank you.

Okay so, where to go? It looks like there are some paths to follow, so left or right? Ah, I'll go left, see where that takes me. Ruby's character started walking, or at least the flashlight was moving in that direction. It's actually a nice night in this game, Ruby thought. There's crickets chirping, the wind is nice, and there are background noises like a dog somewhere, so I can't be too far from a city. Maybe a park? That thought gave her some comfort as she remembered the park on Patch Yang and her spent a lot of time at.

About half a minute of walking brought her to a clearing. Dead center of the clearing was a tree. It was different from all the other trees, and not just because it was a stand-alone tree. It had no leaves that Ruby could see and the trunk was thicker than the other trees. The freakiest thing about it was that the limbs seemed to be swaying without any external force being applied. They moved on their own and not with the wind.

That's really creepy, why did they design a tree like that? Ruby strafed right around the tree, but something caught her eye in the edge of the flashlight's beam. When she turned and looked it was a piece of paper. Oh hey, I found a note! Or page. Yay! Then she looked at what it was. It was a slightly yellow paper with black ink on it. There were drawings of trees on it, but on the right was an out of proportion person with too long arms and not much of a face to speak of. Well, that's… something, Ruby thought, not really coming up with anything. So I need to collect this note? What was it? Click it, right.

Ruby clicked on the note and the words 'Pages 1/8' appeared. Yay! Then an ominous echoing thumping noise started playing. Thum… thum… thum… thum… Ohhhhhh no. Oh no. That's bad, that's really, really bad. That means something's out to get me. Ahhh! Gotta' hurry. What was it, the sprint? Shift? Ruby pressed the key and the girl started 'running'. Running was in massive sarcasm.

"Oh come on, I can walk faster than this! Heck, I could crawl faster than this!" Ruby said out loud in exasperation. She stopped running just to not get too annoyed with the game, and also because the flashlight went down to the ground when she... jogged really. Not much else could describe it.

She continued on the path and soon came to a red truck with a shed behind it. Okay, note here? Ah, there it is. She saw the slightly highlighted outline of the note on the right side. This time is was different. There was only one tree on the left, with the drawing man in the middle, with the word 'Follows' going on the right side. Yea, okay, something is following me. She clicked it and 'Pages 2/8' showed up. One-fourth done. You can do this Ruby!

The thum… thum… thum… continued. And the sweat started to build.

Ruby walked a bit more and noticed that there was an open space to her right. I'll go right this time, see how that goes. She started towards the area and glanced up. Oh look, sky and stars. Ruby tried for a moment to make out constellations, but her nerves couldn't handle staying still so she continued walking.

Her flashlight shone upon a building. Ugh, I'm going to have to go in there aren't I? She groaned and walked in the entrance. The footsteps changed so that it sounded as if she was walking on the tiles. What is this, a bathroom? A shower room? A locker room? What is this? She turned a corner and saw a chair on its side, then walked past it. She entered a dead end with no note in sight. Oh no, I'm goin' to have to turn around. Wincing, she slowly and painfully turned around. There was nothing. Oh thank Dust.

She walked past the fallen chair but when she glanced to the right…

There it was.

It was so tall that it reached the ceiling, with abnormal arms that went down to where normal knees would be. It was dressed in black with a white undershirt and a tie. The worst was its face. It was blank. Only subtle bumps showed any shadow of a hint where its eyes and nose should have been, and it had no mouth, no other features.

Just blank. White. Blank.

The sound picked up and there was a burst of static that flashed across the screen as Ruby's flashlight shone on it. Ruby, understandably, squealed in fright and jumped. Quickly she turned and went left, running as fast as the game would let her. "Oh god oh god oh god oh god, ahhh!" Ruby yelped as she went around the corner. There was another opening and Ruby took it.

Unfortunately it was another dead end.

Fortunately it had another page.

"Oh thank god, now I can finally get out of here!" Ruby went up to the page, which said 'Leave Me Alone' with a tree to the right side.

Pages 3/8.

Then a low droning noise started up that raised Ruby's already frayed nerves even more. "I'm out!" Ruby took the nearest exit and immediately turned left again and started sprinting again. Once Ruby thought she put enough distance between her and that thing she glanced around.

It was there, following.

The screen started filling up with static and Ruby turned back around, inertly knowing that looking at it is a really bad thing. She soldiered on.

The next thing she came across was rows of what looked like fuel tanks. I wish I had Crescent Rose with me; then I could just blow them up when it gets close enough. Or even just cut it into tiny pieces. She went in-between the right most ones and looked right, then left. Nothing. No pages. Ruby went past the two perpendicular tankers to the next row. Left, then right.

"Yes!" Another page on the far right end. Ruby ran to it and gave it a glance. On top it said 'Always Watches' then a featureless face with two 'x's where the eyes could be, then under that it said, 'No Eyes'. Ruby clicked it.

Pages 4/8.

Ruby started walking again, her breathing almost matching her character's. Half way there. Half way there.

Unfortunately, that was as far as she would get.

A sudden slamming piano noise cut through the game's noise, causing Ruby to jump up in fright. During this, her knee hit the underside of the desk, causing a sharp pain to cloud her mind. She had also jerked her hands, hitting the keyboard and disconnecting the mouse at the same time. "Ow! My knee!"

Then as she watched horrified, her screen turned without her doing anything and the static whine grew louder and filled the screen. The thing was there, right next to her. The static completely filled the screen and the faceless thing's face flashed a few times with the deafening static, causing Ruby to scream in fright again and fall out of the chair, curled up in a ball.

Pages 4/8

Click to continue.

Game over.

Ruby now laid near comatose on Team RWBY's floor.

"Ruby? Are you alright?" Blake's somewhat alarmed voice cut through the now silent room.


And thus ends Ruby's first attempt. Four out of eight, not bad. Next time though, it's Blake's turn!

Hope you like, please R.R.F.F (Read, Review, Favorite, Follow).

-OrangeGalen